Apple Highlights Accessories With 'Colors That Pop' From Nimble, Belkin, and More

[artifex]

Only one of those is bright, and the rest look like corporate-approved colors.
I could see giving the neon one to an elderly relative or one who is perpetually messy, just so they can’t lose it quite as easily. But a bright orange would be better.

 

[mansplains]

The “B” in Belkin stands for Buyer Beware. They do a poor job supporting their products - Wemo, to be specific.

I haven't had any poor experiences with belkin branded products specifically, but I ditched wemo about a month ago finally. I was able to use their outlets with HomeKit and skip using their garbage app for the longest time, but the outlet troubleshooting needed the app, which needed an account. I make an effort to enjoy smart home appliances, but a lot of manufacturers make it really difficult. My replacement meross matter outlets have been flawless so far. It's insanity to need an account for most, if not all smart appliances.

 

[artifex]

I haven't had any poor experiences with belkin branded products specifically, but I ditched wemo about a month ago finally. I was able to use their outlets with HomeKit and skip using their garbage app for the longest time, but the outlet troubleshooting needed the app, which needed an account. I make an effort to enjoy smart home appliances, but a lot of manufacturers make it really difficult. My replacement meross matter outlets have been flawless so far. It's insanity to need an account for most, if not all smart appliances.

I ditched WeMo a long time ago because their appliance switches would forget their internet connection any time there was a power brownout or outage, and that started happening more frequently here in Texas. They also had weird firmware update issues, I think. I switched to Eufy ones, which work much better (I've unplugged a fan-connected switch all winter and had it remember the net when I plugged back in in the spring) but they still require a remote account and server, so still bad for your use case. I should be ditching them for something not dependent on the cloud eventually. Probably won't bother until I can also set up good local speech control and dump Alexa, though.

 

[Wanted797]

Colours that pop. Only one colour in the line actually pops.